How to Use colossal in a Sentence

colossal

adjective

• Schwarzenegger! O’Donnell! — was the colossal flop of 1997.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• As the Rebbe saw him, the Rebbe threw him a kiss coupled with a colossal smile.
  — Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• But the colossal star can’t even get on the WrestleMania card?
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• This winter has been one for the record books, with the snowpack built up to colossal heights across the state.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Ledgers opened a colossal 17-0 gap over the Lightning at halftime.
  — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Blue Jays opened a colossal 39-23 gap over the Trojans at halftime.
  — Indy Star Ai Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2023
• The trick is to smash some beans against your pot to thicken the soup and extract colossal flavor.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
• The view of New York's skyline, bathed by the fading sun, is shown through the colossal windows.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
• The clip ends with all four dancing on the edge of danger while doing choreo in the jaws of a colossal bear trap.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
• Each year, an artist creates a colossal statue that pays homage to the fair's theme.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
• The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• Towns will play the four alongside Rudy Gobert, who comes from Utah in a colossal trade.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
• But Graceland showed him the colossal hugeness of Elvis.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• The screen, filled with images at once colossal and weightless, may well be the biggest carpet in the city.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• In San Francisco, there's a legend of a colossal sope, a corn saucer that's as big as a dog bowl.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• That’s a colossal misstep and shows just how much of a mess DC was before Gunn’s arrival.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• According to the Ice Age Trail Alliance, colossal ice sheets, a type of glacier that covers a very large area, have gripped the the globe 15 times.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2023
• But the difference is colossal, at times more than 10 times less than that of the enemy.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The people on board watched the colossal creature weave the ocean surface, only yards away.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• This was the first colossal team-up for the MCU, and a lot of the viewers in the theater probably didn't see any of the previous films.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 May 2022
• What the fire wrought marks a colossal loss for Hawaii, for Hawaiian families like Brimeyer's, and for the world.
  — Ashley Pōkiʻi Lewis, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
• In another video, one man can be seen running from the strike as a colossal bang rings out.
  — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
• The restaurant also has a raw bar with oysters on the half shell and colossal prawn shrimp cocktail.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2024
• Among them is a stone colossal head of one of the deities honored in the temples, chinless and without its lower lip.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• The chicken thigh is pounded thin, like a colossal piece of popcorn chicken that went splat on the kitchen counter.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
• To step it up a notch, Hannah suggests making one or two colossal ice cubes to keep it chilled.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• That is a colossal problem for this agency and no amount of, of pointing fingers.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• Some are colossal, 80-minute epics (ahem, Stranger Things), while others clock in at less than 10 minutes (shoutout to Bluey).
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• But decades of selective breeding—crossing only the largest plants—has created colossal varieties.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024